Allegorical engraved title page and a full page frontispiece portrait of Phillip IV both after Peter Paul Rubens. Title is signed "Pet. Paul Rubenius invenit. F. Qvuellinius delineavit, cor. Galleus sculpsit".
The frontispiece portrait is signed "Pet. Paul Rubenius pinxit, cor. Galleus iunior sculps". Both engraved by C. Galle II.
"[Engraved title page] Actually, a reduced version, drawn by Quellinus of Pontius' print of Olivares after the oil-sketch in Brussels..."--Held notes.
Includes index.
Printer's device on title page; final leaf. Signatures: [A]-4A⁴.
Tail-pieces; initials; printed marginalia.
Forms part of the Julius S. Held Collection of Rare Books..
Full margins and gutter included to avoid cropping text, annotations and illustrations.